| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
Mr. Edward Winslow Thomas Williams
Mr. William Brewster Gilbert Winslow
Isaac Allerton Edmund Margesson
Miles Standish Peter Brown
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: and often in a very striking way, just as if a third person were
keeping watch over those things which we are in easy danger of
forgetting.
"Often, too, persons are sent to us at the right time, to offer
or ask for what is needed, and what we should never have had the
courage or resolution to undertake of our own accord.
"Through all these experiences one finds that one is kindly and
tolerant of other people, even of such as are repulsive,
negligent, or ill-willed, for they also are instruments of good
in God's hand, and often most efficient ones. Without these
thoughts it would be hard for even the best of us always to keep
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Pound
Laughing Song
A Cradle Song
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
Night
Spring
Nurse's Song
Infant Joy
A Dream
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: tamen fugae facultas daretur, Sequanis vero, qui intra fines suos
Ariovistum recepissent, quorum oppida omnia in potestate eius essent,
omnes cruciatus essent perferendi.
His rebus cognitis Caesar Gallorum animos verbis confirmavit
pollicitusque est sibi eam rem curae futuram; magnam se habere spem et
beneficio suo et auctoritate adductum Ariovistum finem iniuriis facturum.
Hac oratione habita, concilium dimisit. Et secundum ea multae res eum
hortabantur quare sibi eam rem cogitandam et suscipiendam putaret, in
primis quod Haeduos, fratres consanguineosque saepe numero a senatu
appellatos, in servitute atque [in] dicione videbat Germanorum teneri
eorumque obsides esse apud Ariovistum ac Sequanos intellegebat; quod in
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